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An Act to amend the act to reduce into one, the several acts concerning guardians, orphans, curators, infants, masters and apprentices. 1827 26 (1827)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0375 and id is 1 raw text is: 28 1 I A 18 000j n Year (I the om,,i Wti wealth. county or corporation of liis or her reildence, the compensatidn to each officer, lor himself and the idiot'or lunatic, shall be sixteen cents anti no more, aind to each guard, eight cents per mile, for going to and returning from the hospital, besides feriages, and postage paid by the officer under this act, and no more, to be As- certained. in the manner prescribed by law, and paid out of tltv public treasury. And when the idiot or lunatic shall be admitted Pay orofllcers and into the hospital, the officer and guard shall receive the same coin- . art), w en lunR. pensation for going' thereto, and each shall receive eight cents per c admitted. mile for returning. Penalty on officers S. And be it furtlher enacteed, That if any sherilffor other officer forneglectofduty. shall neglect or refuse to perform the duties required by this act, he shall for every such oflinca forfeit and pay the sum of one hun- dred dollars, to be recovered by action of debt or information in any court of record having jurisdiction thereof, one half to the use of the informer, and the other to the Literary Fund. Commencement. 4. This act shall be in lbrce from and after the passage thereof. CUIAP'iER 54.-An act to amend the act to reduce Into one, the seversl aets con. ceriing guardians, orphans, curators, Infants, masters and apprentices, passed Feb. ruary the eilghteuth, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, and for other (PasseC February 2th, 1828.) Powergivene un. 1. Be it enacted by lite General A!ssembly, That the respective ty and corrstion county and corporation courts shall have power to decree a sale of semb of infantse any I;nds belonging to ami iniant or infants, in the same manner, ianL . nd upon the santte terins, that the superior courts'of chancery may Itev. Code 1819, now decree such sale under the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, vol. i.p.409,410, nineteenth, twentieth, twenty.first, twenty-second and twenty- |U tO 23. . ,.- Actsof 18 6.7,ch. third sections of the act, entitled, an act to reduce into one, the 19, S ., P. I!. several acts concerning guardians, orphans, curators, infants, inns. tess and apprenti6es, passed February 18th, 1819, and the se. cond sectiomi of the act, entitled, an act extending the jurisdic- tion of the superior courts of chancery in certain cases, and for other purposes, passed March 3d, 1827. 90th section ofact 2. Be it further enacted, That theo twentieth section of the act, regu 'ting Ile- entitled, an act to ietluce into one, the several acts directing the cntrpti, course of descents, passed March 10th, 1819, shall be, and the p. ss, . saie is hereby repealed. Right, of appeal 3. Jlnd be it fu'rther enacted, That any person or persons, party to superior court to any such proceeding, or who ought to have been party thereto, of chancery. shall have the right of appeal to the superior court of chancery. When real estate 4. And be it further enacted, That whenever it shall be made to ofiutants maj be appear in any suit brought under this, or the before recited acts, sold to pay eilts that the interest of any infant or infants will be promoted bthe of ancestor or de. a visor, sale of his, her, or their real estate, or any part thereof, in order to pay debts due from the ancestor or devisor, and to exenipt the slaves of such decedent from being sold for that purpose, it shall be lawful for the court having jurisdiction of such suit, to decree a sale of the said real estate, or a part thereof, in the manner pre- Proceeds or &de, scribed, by the acts aforesaid : And the proceeds of such sale shall bow invested. be invested in the purchase of such, and so many of the slaves of the decedent, as to the court may seem-prvor, and advanta- Proviso. geous to the infant' Provided, That no such investment shall be made, until such slaves shall have been valued by discreet and

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